You Are Going To Vote Tomorrow? Right?

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Don't hold back Ike

And hey, what you can't get passed by vote you can always get'er done by judicial fiat. It's the Democrat way?

Pete

It's my way, if it's the Democrat way, good for the Democrats. The Congress is a joke, particularly the US House. Just move to some backwater cabbageville full of in-breds with big foreheads like a bumper on a '52 Chevy. Tell them that you'll make pigs fly and repeal Obamacare and you're a Congressman for the next 32 years.

Keep the White House. Fill the SCOTUS with as many progressively minded judges as possible, and we still may have a chance for this to be a half-way decent country with shit health care. The last thing is a problem because as long as it requires the US Congress to get a decent single payer program established in this country we will continue to be butt-fucked by the insurance industry, big pharma, for-profit hospitals, for-profit medical groups, and doctors who just gotta have that Bentley Continental.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Don't hold back Ike

And hey, what you can't get passed by vote you can always get'er done by judicial fiat. It's the Democrat way?

Pete

Come on Pete you know damn well that it is impossible to get anything passed by the House, hell Bonehead will not even let his bills onto the floor.

We used to have a know nothing party now it is a do nothing party.

[MikeG22]

Your right Ike, screw those doctors! Going through all that school and working their asses off to make a lot of money. F them!

You should stop while your ahead, your starting to sound like a republican after the presidential election six years ago. Don't worry the sky isn't falling.

[MikeG22]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Come on Pete you know damn well that it is impossible to get anything passed by the House, hell Bonehead will not even let his bills onto the floor.

We used to have a know nothing party now it is a do nothing party.

Gotta ask yourself, what did Bill Clinton do?

[piece-itpete]

We have a do nothing party and a for goodness sake don't do anything party

Ike, taking the Democrat out of Democracy?

Pete

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by MikeG22

Your right Ike, screw those doctors! Going through all that school and working their asses off to make a lot of money. F them!

You should stop while your ahead, your starting to sound like a republican after the presidential election six years ago. Don't worry the sky isn't falling.

Is that all being a doctor is about, making money?

My family doctor told me once, "Those guys come and go. Nowadays, most are retired before they hit 45-50. Get in, make the money, get out. That's how much money there is in surgery."

Sure, everybody wants to make money. But, at what point are you ONLY in it for the money? And what good is that to the rest of us, who just want to feel better, without having to lose the farm to pay for it?

Dave

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Is that all being a doctor is about, making money?

My family doctor told me once, "Those guys come and go. Nowadays, most are retired before they hit 45-50. Get in, make the money, get out. That's how much money there is in surgery."

Sure, everybody wants to make money. But, at what point are you ONLY in it for the money? And what good is that to the rest of us, who just want to feel better, without having to lose the farm to pay for it?

Dave

Docs in the EU have a reasonable attitude about accumulation of wealth. Our friend who's an orthopedic surgeon in Paris is quite happy with his 2 bedroom flat in the 7th, and his new Audi A4.

[merrylander]

As a matter of curiosity the Repubs sqeaked through in a lot of places.

However only one third of eligible voters actually voted.

The other two thirds could not be bothered.

[piece-itpete]

It's amazing. People just don't care.

Kentucky bourbon anyone?

Pete

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

It's amazing. People just don't care.

Kentucky bourbon anyone?

Pete

People care. Of the Western democracies it's pretty much Americans who are too stupid, too ignorant, and too intellectually lazy-ass motherfuckers to take the time to learn anything about government or exercise their right to vote...and don't care.